(plural dummies)
1 [C] a model of a person, used especially when making clothes or for showing them in a shop window:
a tailor's dummy * a ventriloquist's dummy
2 [C] a thing that seems to be real but is only a copy of the real thing:
The bottles of whisky on display are all dummies.
3 [C] (AmE, informal) a stupid person:
Don't just stand there you dummy.
4 [C] (in some sports, such as football) an occasion when you pretend to pass the ball to another player and then do not do so
5 [C] (BrE) (AmE pacifier) a specially shaped rubber or plastic object for a baby to suck
6 [U] (in card games, especially BRIDGE) the cards which are placed facing upwards on the table and which can be seen by all the players:
She played a jack from dummy.
adjective [onlybeforenoun] made to look real, although it is actually a copy which does not work:
a dummy bomb / rifle
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Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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